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Opus ultimum : the story of the Mozart Requiem /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leeson, Daniel N.
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Algora Pub., [2004]
Subjects:
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, > 1756-1791. > Requiem, > K. 626, > D minor.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : The romance of Mozart's Requiem
  • The very beginning
  • Two memorials for a tragic event
  • Introducing the pivotal character
  • Events become controlled
  • Selecting the completer
  • Süssmayr and Constanze's constancy
  • Defining "incomplete"
  • First dimension
  • First dimension : Kyrie
  • First dimension : Dies irae to Hostias
  • Second dimension
  • Süssmayr a plagiarist?
  • Amanuensis
  • Scraps of paper
  • Too good for Süssmayr
  • Tune duplication
  • The lesser talent
  • Brussels desecration
  • Third dimension
  • The Requiem is completed
  • Ends and means
  • Count Walsegg's story
  • Scandal!
  • The manuscript is reassembled
  • A festival of misfortunes and death
  • Contemporary Süssmayrs
  • In the Requiem's healing embrace
  • Epilogue : a fiction story.